Deutsche Grammophon presents First Choice, its new flagship mid-price series. The series features top artists - Claudio Abbado, the Emerson String Quartet, Helene Grimaud, Herber von Karajan, James Levine, Anna Netrebko, Itzhak Perlman, Trevor Pinnock, Gil Shaham, Bryn Terfel and Krystian Zimerman - performing great music in best-selling and benchmark recordings. Each release comes with new liner notes on the artists and recordings by expert authors.

"Singing, acting, stage presence - Anna Netrebko possesses all the qualities to make her the perfect opera singer... Anna Netrebko's new CD is no compromise either... it showcases her strength and her musical passions." -Classic FM

"Here she presents herself as a lyric coloratura soprano destined for Sutherland's French and Italian repertoire: her new calling card, Donna in "Don Giovanni", is represented with a brilliant-toned 'Non mi dir'... It is the French repertoire... and bel canto extracts... that will excite most interest here. Even if her French and Italian are not entirely idiomatic, she has every weapon in the technical armoury to sing these very different roles. DG has launched Netrebko in style, with luxury accompaniment from the Vienna Phil." -The Sunday Times